I recently read an article over at Springwise about a Doctor who makes house calls and get this…also communicates with patients via IM, text, or video chat. The article got me thinking about how many people would actually use this kind of service. I find myslef doing more and more of general life maintenance tasks online; scheduling oil changes and other random appointment scheduling. In fact I have become so use to doing this it now takes me “longer” to take the time out to pick up a phone and schedule an appointment for those things. I am not sure if I am in the minority for this type of behavior but I will say that I would actually probably use Dr. Jay Parkinson; that is if he wasn’t located in Brooklyn. I know I would definitely use online scheduling and I think added ways of communication are always a benefit, especially for a health provider. The “house calls” to your home or work are a huge time saver I am sure and also brings personal relationships back to medicine. How many of you would choose a 2.0 doctor?
November 29th, 2007 at 10:40 am
I would use him also. Whenever I go to the doctor, he spends less than 10 minutes with me and is ready to write a prescription and move on. Meanwhile, I have to spend time driving to the office and miss a couple hours of work.
This doctor will come to you. It doesn’t get any better than that. I hope more pick up on this trend. This would make a good podcast (hint, hint).
December 1st, 2007 at 10:06 pm
To be honest, I rarely go to the doctor as it is … so, I’m not sure that I would go to a 2.0 doctor either.
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peace, Villager
December 2nd, 2007 at 11:54 am
Yes going to the Dr. can be very time consuming. BDPA makes a good point though, if you don’t go to the doctor in the 1st place having additional means of communication may not be of use anyway.